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Kintyre (Scottish Gaelic: Cinn Tìre, Scottish Gaelic pronunciation: [kʲʰiɲˈtʲʰiːɾʲə]) is a peninsula in western Scotland, in the southwest of Argyll and Bute. The peninsula stretches about 30 miles (50 kilometres), from the Mull of Kintyre in the south to East and West Loch Tarbert in the north.
Then, declaring that Kintyre had "better land than the best of the Hebrides", he claimed that dragging his ship across the isthmus had been equivalent to “sailing around” the peninsula, and thus that the peninsula counted as “land around which a ship could sail.” As a result of this maneuver, he was able to claim possession of the ...
An idyllic 453-acre private island is up for sale off the west coast of Scotland and it comes with sandy beaches, puffins galore, seven houses, a pub, a helipad and a flock of black-faced sheep.
The Mull of Kintyre is the southwesternmost tip of the Kintyre Peninsula (formerly Cantyre) in southwest Scotland. From here, the Antrim coast of Northern Ireland is visible on a calm and clear day, and a historic lighthouse , the second commissioned in Scotland, guides shipping in the intervening North Channel .
Sheep Island is a small uninhabited island situated off the southern tip of the Kintyre peninsula in Scotland. Sheep Island, along with Sanda Island and Glunimore Island , form a small group of islands approximately three kilometres (two miles) south of Kintyre at grid reference NR733055 .
Sanda Island (Scottish Gaelic: Sandaigh) is a small island in the Firth of Clyde, off of Argyll and Bute, Scotland, near the southern tip of the Kintyre peninsula, near Southend and Dunaverty Castle. On clear days Sanda can be seen from the southern tip of the Kintyre peninsula, from the Isle of Arran and from northeast County Antrim .
Island Davaar [4] or Davaar Island (Scottish Gaelic: Eilean Dà Bhàrr) is located at the mouth of Campbeltown Loch off the east coast of Kintyre Peninsula, in Argyll and Bute, west of Scotland. It is a tidal island, linked to the mainland by a natural shingle causeway called the Doìrlinn near Campbeltown at low tide. The crossing can be made ...
Gigha (/ ˈ ɡ iː ə / GHEE-ə; Scottish Gaelic: Giogha; Scots: Gigha) or the Isle of Gigha [9] (and formerly Gigha Island) [10] is an island off the west coast of Kintyre in Scotland. The island forms part of Argyll and Bute and has a population of 163 people. [6] The climate is mild with higher than average sunshine hours and the soils are ...